Sanitary washable case for comfortables.



A. G. CALDWELL.

SANITARY WASHABLE CASE FOR OOMPORTABLES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19, 1909.

938,968, Patented Nov. 2, 1909.

Q9 i in cooco ANNIE COWING CALDWELL, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

SANITARY WASHAIBLE CASE FOR COMFORTABLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 19 1909. Serial No. 478,146.

To all whom it may concem:

.Be it known that I, ANNIE Cowme CALD- WELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento and State of California, have invented a new and useful Sanitary'Washable Case for Comfortables, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bed comfortables, and has for its object the provision of a case or slip for inclosing the comfortable, the comfortable and slip being provided with means of attachment one to the other, which means may be easily detached'to permit the slip to be withdrawn from the comfortable and to be washed.v

Heretofore comfortables or like articles of bed furniture have not been washable for the reason that the comfortable was covered by material which was permanently fastened in place. Hence, comfortablesof this 'kind have been unsanitary, liable to collect dirt, become easily soiled and without any means whereby the outer covering of the comfortable could be cleaned or washed, it bein of course, impossible to put the comfortab e as a whole into the wash because of the cotton filling. I design to avoid this objection to comfortables by providing a slip cover which is adapted to inclose the comfortable and form an outside facing therefor this cover having buttons or other fastening devices at one end whereby the ends of the slip may be closed and the comfortable and slip provided with a series of tapes whereby the two may be attached along the length of the comfortable or across it so as to prevent any relative movement between the slip cover and the body of the comfortable.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a comfortable made in accordance with my invention, one end of the slip cover being broken away; Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the comfortable showing one manner of attaching the body of the comfortable to its case or slip; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a portion of a comfortable showing another means of attaching the body of the comfortable to the slip, and also illustrating the means for closing the end of the slip; Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section of the comfortable and slip, showing the tapes attached to the inside face of both the slip and comfortable and concealed thereby.

In the drawings 2 denotes a comfortable Patented Nov. 2,1909.

of any ordinary construction, having the terialwhich has thetgeneral shape of thecomfortabl and is, of course, preferably closed at t e two sides and at the end so as to form a bag-like article into which the comfortable body 2 may be readily sli ped. One end of the cover 5 extends beyon body of the comfortable as shown in Fig; 3, and this extension on its inside face is provided with the opposed strips 6 and 7, which may be stitched to the casing 5. One of these'slips carries a series of buttons, 8, and the other has corresponding button holes 9. By this means the end of the slip cover may be closed. While this would provide a cover entirely inclosing the comfortable and preventing it from being soiled, yet in use the slip cover would be liable to shift upon the comfortable or the comfortable would be likely to become crumpled or to settle down toward one end of the slip cover. In order to prevent this I attach the comfortable body to the slip cover at various points over its extent. Thus, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 I provide a series of double tapes, 10, and 11, which project out through slits, 12, made in the casing or sli 5. These tapes are then tied as shown in i 1 and securely hold the slip to the com ortable.

Preferably, the inner face of the" slip 5 is provided with reinforcing strips 13, which extend lengthwise or crosswise of the slip 5, and are attached to the inner surface thereof in any suitable manner, asby stitching, as shown in Fig. 2. The ends of the tape 10 and 11 are passed up through the slits formed in these reinforcing strips and out to the outer surface of the slip, where they are tied, as shown.

In Fig. 4, I show another manner of attaching the slip'5 to the comfortable, this consisting in providing the inner face of the slip with a tape, 15, and the outer face of the comfortable body with a tape 16, these tapes being tied interiorly of the slip in the manner shown. While this is a more inconvenient manner of attaching the slip to the comfortable, yet it prevents the tapes from being seen, makes a neater appearance, and does not leave any projection on the outer surface of the slip which would interfere with its use. I

While I have shown tapes for attaching the The advantages of my invention reside in the sanitary nature of the slip and its durability. The comfortable is not only rotected from dirt'and from becoming soi ed, but it is also protected from wear. The slip may be washed and kept in clean condition, and when worn it may be easily renewed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to", secure by Lettens-Patent, is: t

- 1. A comfortable provided with an interior body inclosed in a permanentcase, in combination with an exterior inclosing slip open at one end but provided with means for detachably closing this end, and with a plurality of independent devices on the upper and lower sides of the comfortable whereby the upper and lower sides of the body1 of the slip maybe detachably connected to t e body of the comfortable.

2. A comfortable having a body portion inclosed in a ermanent-casing, in combination with a sip ada ted to entirely inclose the body portion an casing butremovable therefrom, one end of the sli being open but provided with buttons an button holes whereby it may be closed, the u per and lower parts of the said casing an the slip being provided at various oints over their surfaces with means whereby they may be detachably attached to eachother, the attaching means connecting the upper parts of the casing and slip being separate from 'the attaching means connecting the lower parts thereof. 7

3. A comfortable having a body portion entirely inclosed in a permanent casing, in combination witha slip open at one end and adapted to entirely inclose the body portion,

the open end of the slip being provided with means whereby it may be closed, and's'ets of bodyof the comfortable having 0 tapes projecting therefrom and t e s tapes on the top and bottom sides of the comfortable for fastening the slip thereto.

4. A comfortable comprising a body portion inclosed in a ermanent casing, and a slip ada ted to entirel inclose the body of the com ortable, said s ip being open at one end but provided with means whereby the open end may be closed, the bod portion of the comfortable being provide at various points with opposed tapes, and the slip being provided at correspondin points with op-' posed slits through whic said ta es may pass and be tied over the slip to old the slip to the-body ortion. p

5. A comforti ble having a body portion provided with an inclosing permanent case and a removable slip entirely inclosing the body and case, said slip bein open atone end butfurther provided wit buttons and button holes whereby it may be closed, the

ip being provided at corresponding points with opposed slits through which t e tapes may ass and be tied to each other, the inner surace of the sli being yreinforced along the '70 posed line of said slits by a reinforcing piece attached thereto.

6.- A comfortable having a body portion inclosed in a permanent casing and a separable slip. adagted to entirely inclose the 7 comfortable an casing, one end of said slip being open-and having transverse oppose strips attached to its inner face at said end,

one of said strips carryin a button andthe other having a button ho e-for enga ement therewith, and said body portion having tapes whereby it may be attached to the slip,

saidstrips being set inwardly from the open ends of the slip and having onl their inner edges secured to the latter an free at all their. points.

In testimony, that'I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my slgnature in the presence of two witnesses.

, ANNIE COWING CALDWELL.

' Witnesses: v

MINNIE C. TRAMPLEUsURE, J .-B. PA'r'masoN. 

